LOSING D DRIVE IN WINDOWS XP

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What WAS the "D" drive? Do you have a CD drive? Did you remove the CD
drive and replace it a floppy drive? You need to provide a little more
info about what you had/have and what you did.


Sheron wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have now realised that there is no D drive, even though it was perfectly
> fine before.
>
> Do I have to partition the hard drive, or how can I get D drive back please.
>
> I am using an Inspiron 1100 laptop.
>
> Sheron
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

This is a possible repair for the situation

CD-ROM drive or DVD-ROM drive appears to be missing after you install
Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -us;320553



Sheron wrote:

> Hi
>
> The D drive is the DVD drive. I have not removed the CD as this is a
> laptop, not a pc.
>
> I have been in Windows Explorer and there is definitely no D drive now. I
> have looked in BIOS and it seems okay. I have even put in the XP setup disk,
> just to see if it would read the CD. It did from bootup. But if I look at
> the CD after bootup D drive is not there.
>
> "Bob I" wrote:
>
>
>>What WAS the "D" drive? Do you have a CD drive? Did you remove the CD
>>drive and replace it a floppy drive? You need to provide a little more
>>info about what you had/have and what you did.
>>
>>
>>Sheron wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi
>>>
>>>I have now realised that there is no D drive, even though it was perfectly
>>>fine before.
>>>
>>>Do I have to partition the hard drive, or how can I get D drive back please.
>>>
>>>I am using an Inspiron 1100 laptop.
>>>
>>>Sheron
>>>
>>>
>>